Buckman



(VNO MAoivle-I.) v i -D. W. SEELBY &-A. BUGKMAN.

BALING PRESAS. l No.y 292,593. Patented Jan. 29,1884.

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i UNITED STATES PATENT I OEricEO DAVID XV. SEELEY, OF ALBANY, AND ALEXANDER BUOKMAN, OF SCHODACK, NEV YORK 5, SAlD BUOKMAN ASSIGNOR TO SAID SEELEY.

BALINel-PRESS;

srncrr zentriert forming part of'Letters Patent No. 292,593, dated January 29, 1854.

y A Application filed October 2S), 1881. (No model.) A

To all 111700112/ t may concern: l`

Be it known that .we DAVID SEELEY, of the city and county of Albany, and State of New York, and ALEXANDER BUCKMAN, of Schodack, in the county ofrRensselaer and `State of New York,'have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baling Presses, of which the following is a specification. A

Our .invention relates particularly to the class of horizontal baling-presses wherein the loose material is fed into the forward end of the pressingchamber to be compressed by means ,of a reciprocating plunger, and the iinshed bale is. ejected at the rear end of the press; and the kind of press upon which our present invention is an improvement will be found clearly shown and described in Letters Patent ofthe United States No. 230, 7 36, granted to us on the 3d day of August, 1880, and the objects of our improvements are, `rst, to provide means for effecting the compression of the material into a compact mass before it passes into the baling-chamber wherein the bale is tied-off and finished; second, to afford facilities for adjusting the sides of the pressing-chamber to produce any required degree of compression ofthe material in the bale before it passes from the pressing-chamber into the baling-chamber of the press; third, to afford facilities for effecting the operation of tying-off the bales by means of an open-sided balingchamber provided with guiding-strips for guiding the bales sidewise in their passage through said chamber; and, fourth, to provide suitable means for adjusting the guidingstrips of the baling-chamber when required to produce a resistance to the passage of the bale through the baling-chamber.

The objects above set forth we attain by.y means of the mechanism 'illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, and in which-- Figure 1 is a side elevation of that portion of a horizontal press affected by' our invention; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section of the same 5 Fig. 3, ahorizontal section, and Fig. 4 a transverse section at the line Ve have found by experimenting that hay,

5o straw, and other similar substances, after being condensed in the pressing-chamber 'and then released from said chamber, do not exert any force to expand the pack in a cross-v wise direction, and that theronly resilient struction commonly practiced, 'and that by ,jmeans'of a short pressing-chamber.-about the legth'o'f afinished bale, or less-the machine will perform its work in -a more satisfactory and expeditious manner than whenfurnished with the usual form of long pressing-chamber.

As represented in the accompanying draw ings, A is the pressing-chamber of our press, andB the open-sided baling-chamber,'provided with guiding-strips b at the top and bottomof both of the open sides of said chamber. The pressing-chamber A is provided with adjust able side pieces, A', that are attached, as at a, to the stationary vertical girt-pieces a of the press-frame, and the rear ends of said 'side pieces, A, are fastened to the movable vertical girt-pieccs a2, which are made laterally adjustable by means of the transverse tie-bolts a, in4 such manner that the sides at the rear end of the pressingchamber can be forced inward, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3, to contract the discharge-opening of said chamber, and thedegree of such contraction may be varied as occasion requires to produce a greater or lesser resistance to the passage of ra compressed bale, and thereby the density ofthe pack will accordingly be increasedor diminished. While the adjusting mechanism is only shown, in the drawings as applied to the sidesof the pressing-chamber, it is obvious that the same orfan equivalent adjustment may be applied with like effect to the top and bottom pieces of said chamber, or either of said pieces, and to either separately or in conjunction with the adjustable side pieces. The baling-chamber B is included inthe framing of the press, and is providedwith a close top and bottom; but the` sides o f said chamber are only provided with guiding-strips b, xed at the upper and lower angles thereof, for guiding the bale in its pas IOO sage through the said chamber. An opening, B, is formed at each side of the baling-chaniber, so as to leave a clear open space between the upper and lower guidingstrips b, and extending the entire length of said chamber, and by means of said openings the operation of tying-off the bales-while retained in the baling-chaniber-is greatly facilitated.

The guiding-strips b may either lbe secured in fixed positions at the places hereinbefore set forth, or, when preferred, the said strips, placed in the saine locations, may be fastened at both of their extremities, while the intermediat3 portions are left free, and when arranged as last described, adjusting-screws C are fitted to bear against said strips at or near the middle of each opening B, for the purpose of bending each strip inwardly to contract the horizontal space between the opposite strips, so as to produce, when required, a second point of `resistance to the movement of the bale while passing through the press.

Ve claim as our inventionl. In a baling-press, the pressing-Chambon A, provided with adjustable walls A', hinged, as at a, at their forward ends to a contiguous stationary part of the press, and arranged in relation to the baling-ehaniber B as herein` described, for the purpose of completing the compression of the material before the bale is passed into the balingr chaniber, as herein speeied.

2. In a baling-press, the baling-chalnber B, provided at two of its oppositely-located Vertical sides with a single opening, B, and guiding-strips I), for the purpose of facilitating Vthe operation of tying-oft' the bale before it is ejected from the press, as herein specified.

3. In a billing-press, the combination, with the pressing-chamber A, of the baling-chan1 ber B, arranged in relation to the pressingchamber as herein described, and provided at each of its vertical sides with a single opening, B', and top and bottoni guiding-strips, b as and for the purpose herein specified.

et. In a'balingpress, the combination, with the baling-chaniber B, provided with a single opening, B', in two of its oppositely-loeated vertical sides, of the guidingstrips b, secured at both ends, and adjusting-screws (l, adapted to .press against the niiddle portions of the said strips I), all constructed and ar 'anged to operate as herein specified.

DAVID lV. SEELEY.

, ALFXANDER BUCKMAN. \Viinesses:

WM. H. Low, (heus. F. ScA'rrrzncoon. 

